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I recognize why some parents are worried about screen time and the use of technology in the classroom. But isn’t the better idea to teach kids how to use it properly, rather than banning it altogether?
Lately, there have been a bunch of stories about banning mobile phones in schools. Both California and New York have been pushing to make it mandatory. Lots of people are ignoring that (1) this has...
It seems like only yesterday that cable TV executives — and the analysts poised to prop up their narratives to boost stock valuations — were busy insisting that the “cord cutting” trend was a “fiction” that would abate any moment now. It was the kind of thinking that helped justify their inability to adapt to consumer frustration and a quickly-changed market.
A decade or so later and streaming...
Of all the ways that content creators use copyright to strike down content, one of the most befuddling is when trailers are the subject of copyright strikes. There is occasionally some logic to these sorts of strikes. Trailers that are unfinished, for instance. But even when trailers leak early in a finished state, copyright holders use copyright to take those down.
But the point of a trailer is...
When it comes to the Supreme Court-created (and diluted) qualified immunity doctrine, the Ninth Circuit leads the league in rejections. The Fifth Circuit is its polar opposite, more willing to forgive cops than uphold civil rights. This case would have been dead on arrival in the Fifth. But since it landed in the Ninth, the victim of excessive force, protester Derrick Sanderlin, will see his...
Can we add a warning label to the First Amendment that says “Actually reading this can cause extreme embarrassment to grandstanding politicians”?
California Attorney General, Rob Bonta, has just lost two separate cases in the Ninth Circuit regarding social media laws he strongly supported, which the court said violated the First Amendment. You would think that maybe, just maybe, he’d take a step...
You would think this is a done deal, but it isn’t. It just keeps getting stupider.
Last year, journalist Ben Camacho filed a public records request for photos of all active Los Angeles PD officers. After a couple of rounds of litigation, the city agreed to release the sought records. Camacho shared these with the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, which added the photos to its existing searchable...
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Two weeks ago, Mark Zuckerberg apologized for something he didn’t actually do to appease a bad faith actor demanding he take responsibility for something that didn’t happen. This week, he’s claiming that he’s done falsely apologizing to bad faith actors demanding accountability for things he’s not responsible for.
Pardon me, but I think I’ll wait for some actual evidence of this before I take it...
The ink is barely dry on Verizon’s $20 billion proposed acquisition of Frontier, but industry analysts — ever excited to boost stock valuations via speculation — are already pushing for greater consolidation in the very broken U.S. telecom industry.
Telecom industry trade magazines are all frothy at the potential for even more mergers, including a potential Verizon purchase of Lumen (formerly...
More than a decade ago, the NYPD was sued successfully over its stop-and-frisk program. A federal court found the program routinely violated rights and disproportionately targeted minorities. Judge Shira Sheindlin ordered a number of reforms to the program and it was placed under federal oversight.
Since then, the NYPD hasn’t changed much about how it handles these interactions. Officers were...